reduced fee for facilitation, but no assessment services or accreditation

reduced fee for assessment services and accreditation, but no facilitation

full student fee for facilitation, assessment services and accreditation

Literature Review

The first part of the project has been to carry a literature review, looking at OER and open education practices: http://ia600209.us.archive.org/14/items/Oer-LiteratureReview2011/OerPractices_2.pdf
The aim of the literature review was to inform the development of the open version of the GCTLT. It has resulted in this research question which we will address as we trial the open GCTLT in 2012:
How can an open facilitated course using a four tier model of funding be designed so it is sustainable and attracts revenue?

Development of open courses

The second stage of our project is to develop criteria that will guide the development of the open courses within the GCTLT program. At the moment it is difficult to find concrete guidelines on the nitty gritty of OER course development. There are a number of documents that talk about general principles of OER, how to develop OER strategy within organisations, as well as advice on how to develop OER objects.

Information about how to develop open courses comes mostly from e-learning and general education literature. However, there are a few sources that talk about the practicalities of open course design and implementation.

Open Education Practices: A User Guide for Organisations 2010

Digital Information Literacy 2009

Second Life Education New Zealand 2009

Virtual birth unit Image by Sarah Stewart. Second Life build by Aaron Griffiths for the SLENZ project. CC By

Two members of EDC, Leigh Blackall and Sarah Stewart were core members of the Second Life Education New Zealand project in 2009. This national research project looked at how Second Life could be used in tertiary education, focusing on foundation interview skills and midwifery education.

Information about the project can be found on the project blog [1], including the evaluation report [2].

Lesson plans, supporting information and resources for the Foundation Interview Skills in Second Life project [3]